Boise State Broncos College Football Preview 2021: What Will Happen, Season Prediction
No pressure, new guy. Just be as good as one of the greatest head coach succession runs in college football history.
Here’s the standard that first time head coach Andy Avalos has to live up to …
Dirk Koetter won 72% of his games starting in 1998 with two Big West titles in his three years. He left, and in came Dan Hawkins.
Hawkins won 83% of his games in his five years with four WAC Championships. He left, and in came Chris Petersen.
Petersen took what Koetter and Hawkins put together to a whole other level. He won 89% of his games – just take a moment and realize how impossible that is – over eight seasons with five conference championships and a whole slew of historic victories. He left, and in came Bryan Harsin.
Harsin won 78% of his games with three Mountain West titles and two other championship appearances in his seven seasons. He led his 2014 team to the first ever New Year’s Six bowl game for a Group of Five program, and won. He left, and in comes Avalos.
Of course some of the biggest of the big name programs have done more over the last 21 years, but with 14 conference championships, two other conference title appearances, and bowl games year after year after year, Boise State has been the model of consistent greatness.
There’s no honeymoon here. There’s no one year grace period to get everything going. For Avalos and the new coaching staff, either you win the Mountain West title with the 2021 team, or you don’t. That’s it, that’s the bar, that’s the season.
Set The Boise State Broncos Regular Season Win Total At … 8.5
The team is in place. The lines are fantastic, the skill guys are strong, and the depth is good enough to play around with the options.
The division is winnable. Air Force, Colorado State, New Mexico, Utah State and Wyoming are all going to be better, but they’re not at Boise State’s level like some in the West are.
Missing San Jose State matters, and not playing Hawaii is big if only because it avoids a possible long road trip. However, starting at UCF and getting Oklahoma State in the first three weeks might be rocky, and going to BYU in early October and making the trip to San Diego State late is rough.
No matter what, though, the schedule works out fine to get to the Mountain West Championship … again.
It’s a big moment for the program. Avalos is a hot young coach who’s getting his shot in a fantastic situation.
It’s Boise State. The coaching will be just fine, the team will be great, and everything will keep marching on.
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